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11:33 AM 9/18/2025
Turn the armhole facing to the wrong side and press a crease such that just a cloth-turn of the right side shows on the wrong side.
Frankly, my dear, I burn my fingers and don't do a very good job when I try to crease it with a hot iron, so I pin the fold while smoothing it. (With SortKwik on my fingers and thumbs. I rub the tip of my index finger on the jellied glycerin, then rub the fingertip on my thumb.)
I stick right-angle pins while forming the crease, then switch them to parallel, in the middle of the four-layer streak, so that there are fewer to pull out while stitching, and less chance of sewing in a pleat.
Trim the allowances of the splicing seam when you get to it. I like SuperSnips for this because they are so small and so cheap that one can stash one everywhere I might want sharp scissors. They are supposed to be for snipping threads, but the tiny blades are convenient when trimming corners off quarter-inch seam allowances.
When edge-stitching, guide on the fold of the bias facing, not on the fold of the fabric.
Press the facing before sewing down the free edge.
1:12 PM 9/18/2025
The sleeve facings of bra B are ready to stitch. I'll do that before heating the iron to press the bias tape I cut yesterday, so that I can press it before stitching down the other edge.
Now it's nap time.
Sunday, 21 September 2025
7:46 PM 9/21/2025
I tucked in all six ends of one dart on bra A while sitting beside a bed today.
Friday was a shopping day, and I plan to write a very dramatic description of Saturday for the Beeson Banner.
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Monday 22 September 2025
10:52 AM 9/22/2025
The pattern for the back of "kameez" fell off the nail by tearing through the hole. The last time I heated up the iron, I pressed snippets of sleazy iron-on interfacing over the holes, and today I got around to putting the hole punch over the repaired hole and hitting it with a hammer. When I went to hang it up, I found that the front had also torn free and fallen to the floor, so there's still a pattern draped over the clutter on the ironing board.
Progress is being made on the bras. I expect to do some more hand work this afternoon.
Tuesday 23 September 2025
8:46 AM 9/23/2025
I heated the iron yesterday, but forgot the pattern. Also didn't finish pressing the bias tape, but did press a bias facing and finish sewing it to the bra.
Thursday 25 September 2025
9:17 AM 9/25/2025
Woke up with the elastic of YD#2red untied and coming out. At least I don't have to hunt for a place to pull it out!
Sunday 12 October 2025
9:20 AM 10/12/2025
The snack-bag sewing kit that I used to keep in the arm of the futon (davenport/sofa/couch) has taken up permanent residence in my go bag, in a sandwich bag together with spools of thread and a Sortkwik finger sticky maker.
1:04 AM 10/13/2025 The shiny #26 tapestry needle in the aforementioned kit has vanished, replaced by a tarnished coarse needle. This worked when I tucked ends in in the Chevy waiting room, but just barely.
But when searching my needle collection for a coarse needle to shorten my purse strap, I found two fine needles that appear to have blunt points (they are fine enough that it is hard to tell) in the chenille-needle box. I shall move one of them to a fuzzy-toothpick box when I next foresee end tucking. And cut a wool scrap to fit the box.
The too-long strap on my crocheted Sunday purse has been annoying me for a long time. A few weeks ago, I pinned a fold in it, intending to wear it one Sunday and, if it fit, sew it before the following Sunday. This morning I woke up early, did the job, and still got to church before the service started.
Wednesday, 6:37 PM 10/15/2025 Did some work on my new bras and patched a pattern that had torn off its nail. I keep a square of baking parchment in my box of small important things to contain the glue when I patch something with a hole in it.
Broke off writing to punch holes in the now-cold patches, contemplated hitting my small cubical hole punch with a hammer (which is always necessary when cutting cloth patches) on both holes at once in the hope that two layers would cut more neatly than one, remembered that there is a pliers-type hole punch in DH's room, found that it cut easily and neatly.
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10:59 AM 9/22/2025
Stitching the armhole facings. I'm remembering to keep the work flat on the bed, with the stitching line curved. Calls for lifting the foot when the curve is tight.
8:43 AM 9/23/2025
Yesterday I folded the raw edge of the bottom of bra && up to meet the fold line and basted it into that position.
Friday 26 September 2025
11:25 AM 9/26/2025
Pinning the armhole facings of Bra A. I'll be cutting the first facing three or four inches past the two-foot mark on the tape, and there's a six-foot mark, so I should have plenty.
11:55 AM 9/26/2025
Second facing cut. Scrap is 24 3/4" measured along the fold. Left cut 4 1/2" from 5 mark, right end 8 1/2" from 6 mark, twelve inches between marks.
Having trimmed the incorrect side on Bra C, I'm leaving the trimming of the seam allowances to the last minute. Probably while rotating the pins to seamline pins.
1:48 PM 9/26/2025
Sewed the ends of the tapes together, then it was time to eat lunch and get ready for my three o'clock appointment.
5:11 AM 10/2/2025
While waiting for the car on Monday, I rotated one armhole's pins and picked out a badly-stitched splicing seam on the other, then wove in the threads on a dart.
Sunday, 5 October 2025
6:22 PM 10/5/2025
Sewed the seam I pinned and re-stitched the seam I picked out. I had an attack of common sense when rotating the pins, and put them on the garment side, so that the tape I'm easing on was next to the feed dogs. This worked out well.
I will, of course, do the opposite when stretching bias onto the neck hole.
Monday, 6 October 2025
10:52 AM 10/6/2025
Oh no! I was distracted when preparing to trim the seam allowance, and when I came back, I trimmed the wrong side!
The raw edge showing is short; after the facing is attached, I shall buttonhole over it.
11:16 AM 10/6/2025
Absent-mindedly put a pin on the table, it rolled off. Even though it had a red head, I had to use the fine-tipped broom to find it. Then I had a dustpan of dirt to dispose of.
11:31 AM 10/6/2025
Other seam trimmed correctly, pins all turned, now it's time to take a shower and put on shoes.
6:27 PM 10/15/2025
Today I ironed a shirt that I washed months ago, pressed patches on pattern Kameez Shirt Front, which had torn off the nail, triple-pressed the turn-under of the bias with which I intend to bind the necks of the bras, and pressed the facings of the armholes of Bra A away from the body. I see from the condition of Bra B that I must press the facing after edge stitching and before sewing down the free edge.
6:57 PM 10/16/2025
Pinned the facings of Bra A, ready for edge stitching. Did some of it on the porch, but it's too cool to stay long.
I don't want to use the hard 100/6 or the feeble two-ply that has been hanging in a window to darn the teensy raw edge on the seam, and I'm pretty sure that I never bought white embroidery floss, but I used to have some balls of darning cotton; they are probably still around here some place.
Friday, 17 October 2025
12:55 PM 10/17/2025
Edgestitched the armhole facings, and pinned the free edge to make it easier to press the turn-under, which had come almost entirely unfolded. I plan to press the armhole facings after sewing on the neck bindings, so the next step is to unpack the sixteen-dollar sewing machine and sew easing threads at the front of the neck.
I've put a light weight on the tape destined to be neck bindings, which I triple-pressed and wound on a card.
1:02 PM 10/17/2025
10:02 PM 10/17/2025